At the end of this video with John says that he will have a new album in 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh5anyrmJZM. Since we all know that anything posted on YouTube must be true I think we can accept this as fact. Seriously though I think John has been dropping hints lately about working on something. I first saw TLW in 2008 which means there hasn't been a new album the entire time I've been a fan. I think it's time.